Sunglasses After Dark

By: Nancy Collins

Narrated by: Melodee M. Spevack

Sunglasses After Dark by award-winning author Nancy A. Collins, tells the story of a punk female vampire/vampire hunter searching for the creature responsible for attacking her as she attempts to rescue an innocent man from an unholy faith healer. While on vacation in Swinging London in 1969, American heiress Denise Thorne disappears, never to be seen again. That very same night Sonja Blue, a tough-as-nails punk vampire/vampire-slayer—conceived in terror and born of blood—rises from the gutters of SoHo, determined to fight for what remains of her humanity as she travels the globe, slaying the shadowy creatures who prey on the innocent. But hunting vampires is nowhere as dangerous as the threat posed by The Other—the demonic personality that constantly battles her for control of their shared body.

One of the first modern Urban Fantasy novels, Sunglasses After Dark has garnered widespread critical praise and is a winner of the Horror Writers Association's coveted Bram Stoker Award as well as the British Fantasy Society’s Icarus Award. Out of print for several years, this audiobook edition of Sunglasses After Dark, originally recorded by RadioArchives and now the property of the author, uses the updated and revised edition, which is the preferred text.

©2012 Nancy A. Collins (P)2014 RadioArchives.com

Simply the best.

Where does Sunglasses After Dark rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I've listened to several hundred audiobooks (probably close to a thousand by now) and this book is the best available vampire-audiobook out there (until Nancy Baker's books get reprinted and re-released).

What was one of the most memorable moments of Sunglasses After Dark?

All of it, I've been waiting for years for this book to appear as an audiobook.

Have you listened to any of Melodee M. Spevack’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No not that I remember, but she really manages to deliver with this performance, the main character is a monster after all.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Of Course, I usually read this series about once a year, as nothing compares and Nancy Collins wrote this before everyone else jumped on the bandwagon..

Any additional comments?

If you want a real classic of a vampire book, that's really, really dark and gritty and that's just not another one among the modern shit, then listen and/or read this one and the following two books.

fantastic inttoduction to the somja blue punk vsmpire gitl vharscyer

Sonja blue escspes from a Loony bin shes been locked up in do her parrnts csn be blackmailed into paying for her stay until she escapes and wreaks havoc on those who put her there!

Sunglasses after Dark

This was Nancy Collins' first novel, and it's very good, but a little uneven. Some of the language is rote, some of the scenes are somewhat flat. It takes a while to take off, but when it does, it's terrific.

Melodee Spevack's narration is similarly uneven, and settles down when the book itself is clearer about its tone. In the beginning the choices she makes seem wrong. The character has led a tough life, but she's made to sound sweet and harmlessly saucy, ending some of her sentences with an inoffensive softness, as if she were savoring the ironies of suburban life, and making sure that none of the men listening thought she was being too aggressive. It's strangely dissociated from the material, but the writing doesn't get the tone right at first either.

So at first it sounds as if it's going to stall out. Stick with it, though, and you'll be rewarded.

Wonderful story!

I loved the story and the performance was great except the pacing. It was tough to keep track as to whose point of view the story was begging told as they switched.

The Details

The detail in the writing was amazing. she really paints a picture. you feel the hate or annoyance or mundane feelings the character is feeling. can't wait to start the next book. only problem I saw was if you are paying attention you you the turn before the twist.